HDA Intel VT1708s on Asus K50IJ does not work (no sound)

**Sasa Vilic** · June 19th, 2009

Hi,

i got my asus K50IJ, and I have installed ubuntu 9.04. I get no sound. I have HDA Intel VT1708s sound card. Does anybody has any solution?

Thanks

**mutrax** · June 19th, 2009

Haha, I'm converting one for a customer as we speak (leterally!) . I'll keep you posted when I have found the solution....

Now I'm looking for the correct model string for alsa-base.conf ( http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1125004.html ). I'll keep you posted when I find the solution, please do the same.

Thanks!

**mutrax** · June 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by mutrax

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Now I'm looking for the correct model string for alsa-base.conf ( http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1125004.html ). .....

nothing there... I've removed pulseaudio and reverted to alsa.
When setting all volumes to max with alsamixer. I get a working microphone at boot, but stops when alsa loads, so, alsa and ubuntu are communicating with the sound hw, but therse no output....
Evrything else I tried,

Fiddling with various settings...
Its a via vt1708s intel hda chipset btw.

Please, anyone else? (for the sake of spreading ubuntu among "normal" computer users

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**Sasa Vilic** · June 19th, 2009

Just before I installed Ubuntu, I tried Open Solaris and it worked great. But under Ubuntu, I get no sound....

**KoKuToru** · July 16th, 2009

Sound with Ubuntu here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1204735

**mutrax** · August 2nd, 2009

Well, this pretty much solved it for me!

Install alsa 1.0.20 as described here;
http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/20...tu-jaunty-904/

And tweak the hda-verb thingy described in following post;
http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/show....php?p=7564125

Code:

sudo -s
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/hda-verb/hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz
tar xf hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz
cd hda-verb-0.3
make
cp hda-verb /usr/bin
gedit /etc/rc.local

And add this line before "exit 0"

Code:

hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1c SET_EAPD_BTLENABLE PCM

Now I have a working k50ij. To bad I had to buy a HP to satisfy the customer... A "just works" laptop brand would be nice. (I'm starting up a ubuntu business in Belgium)